Software Management call for RFEs

[Michal Schmidt]

On 05/23/2013 01:33 PM, Simone Caronni wrote:
> On 22 May 2013 23:18, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>     (10) Get rid of multilib, /usr/lib64 etc and copy what Debian/Ubuntu
>>     are doing.
>
> might I ask the reasoning behind this? I found the current RHEL/Fedora
> approach much better.
>
> For example; at work we use IBM Lotus Notes, which is a 32 bit package.
> To install it in a 32 bit or 64 bit environment the command is the same
> (i.e. yum localinstall) as it will pull in the correct 32 bit
> dependencies. Basically hassle free.
>
> The guys that run Debian/Ubuntu notebooks, have to go through a series
> of dependency problems just to install the package in a 64 bit
> environment with getlibs and the like:
>
> http://usablesoftware.wordpress.com/2012/11/09/install-lotus-notes-8-5-3-on-ubuntu-12-10-64bit-quick-n-dirty-installation-notes/
> http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd85forum.nsf/DateAllThreadedWeb/69b50f2db7bb7b0b85257659005ab79e?OpenDocument

These examples both suggest the use of the "ia32-libs" package. The 
package was an ugly workaround for the missing multilib support in 
Debian, but it should be obsolete with full multiarch in Debian 7.0.

See http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch

Michal